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LAW 670

White Collar Crime

Law School

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[ Litigation ] Intellectual Property: Copyright Law

Why it is relevant for ...

[ Litigation ] as a Related Elective for those interested in Whistle-blowing : Representation of private companies in the biotech and health care industry may include handling investigation of allegedly criminal conduct, including government agency investigations or “whistleblower” cases initiated by employees. These and other cases may require lawyers who represent defendant companies to team with white-collar criminal litigators. Together they may negotiate and litigate with the agencies that regulate a particular area of health care products and services.

General course
Description:

This course explores the law of economic and political crimes associated with the rubic "white collar crime." Key topics are: bribery and gratuities, mail and wire fraud, tax fraud, extortion, securities fraud, racketeering, and money laundering, along with quasi-criminal laws on forfeiture of assets. The course covers specific statutes (mostly federal) in considerable detail, while also speculating about the jurisprudence underlying these crimes, and related issues of prosecutorial discretion and attorney ethics.

Course Style: A Substantive/Statutory course deals with law, theory, and policy in the context of a particular code or statutory scheme.